Given the way the first quarter of the 2024-25 season went for the Pittsburgh Penguins this is not a sentence that I expected to be typing in early December.
But they have a chance to make this season interesting for at least a little bit longer.
They have a chance to maybe play their way back into the playoff race. At least for now.
They enter the week having won five of their past six games, and along with the results have mostly had a strong process behind them. The one loss, the game against the New York Rangers on Friday night, was a pretty disappointing performance given the issues with the Rangers, but they bounced back on Saturday and played one of their most complete games of the season against a really good Toronto Maple Leafs team.